How alien does this thing look? The Vive virtual reality headset is easily the biggest surprise of this year's Mobile World Congress. Built by smartphone manufacturer HTC and powered by Valve's Steam VR platform, the Vive has been surrounded by a whirlwind of hype, promising to transform every aspect of...

Mozilla changed the development priority for Thunderbird a few years ago and said back then that it was no longer investing resources into an e-mail client, which they said would no longer be relevant. Now it looks that Thunderbird adoption is on the rise despite Mozilla's predictions. Mozilla Thunderbird is...

We've seen some interesting devices coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the small Ubuntu-powered Qbo robot is just one them. Linux fans already kind of knew what to expected to see in Barcelona. Many Ubuntu fans were looking to check out the first Meizu MX4 Ubuntu...

Did you hear the one about the Chinese telecom giant that tried to turn into a hip watchmaker? That’s been one of the more surprising stories to come out of this year’s Mobile World Congress. Huawei, a colossal company that makes most of its money on networking equipment and infrastructure,...

Ubuntu MATE has been providing PowerPC support for some time now, but the developers have made some serious improvements to this particular feature in the latest 15.04 Beta 1 update. The Ubuntu MATE devs had quite a changelog for the 15.04 Beta 1 release, and most of the stuff they...

While hearing "PowerVR" tend to make Linux users cringe over memories of past Linux driver issues with Imagination's binary blobs, Imagination is among the vendors now experimenting with the new Vulkan graphics API and SPIR-V IR. Imagination too has already put out one of the first demos using this ...

Allwinner has been accused multiple times in the past of violating the GPL license by not providing Linux/Android kernel source code or U-Boot source, along with using LGPL-licensed code within their binary blobs, etc. Today there's new "definitive proof" of Allwinner's GPL violations...

Bioinformatics graduate student Thomas Hahn was born with albinism – a genetic disorder that's left him nearly blind – and despite his great desire to transfer his Windows programming skills to Linux, it's been nearly impossible to do on his own. He needs someone with sight – and Linux knowled...